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The Business Ethics Workshop

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Reviewed:: Mar 23, 2023 by Business

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Overview:

Ethics is about determining value; it's deciding what's worth doing and what doesn't matter so much. Business ethics is the way we decide what kind of career to pursue, what choices we make on the job, which companies we want to work with, and what kind of economic world we want to live in and then leave behind for those coming after. There are no perfect answers to these questions, but there's a difference between thinking them through and winging it. This online workshop defines business ethics and explains theories of duties and rights and theories of consequence, discusses employee ethics, managers ethics, and provides short cases for discussion.

Type of Material:

Open (Access) Textbook

Recommended Uses:

This can be used for professional development, lecture material, in class discussion, team and individual projects, debates, and homework..

Technical Requirements:

Adobe Reader

Mozilla Firefox 108.0.1

Chrome 103 on Windows 10

Identify Major Learning Goals:

Understand the ethical framework for identifying, analyzing, and resolving dilemmas encountered life at work.
Use cases to stimulate debate
Arrive at conclusions composed from clear values, facts, and solid arguments.

Target Student Population:

Undergraduate Students, Business Students, Management Students

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

The user must know how to use a browser and a keyboard, and how to page through a textbook online. This is also available to download as a PDF, purchase as a print copy, download a zip file, a print file or an LMS file.

Content Quality

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Strengths:

The textbook is extremely well organized and includes clear and concise information that is very detailed and relevant to the content covered.
Appropriate links are included so that reviewers can view supporting documentation.
The author(s) explain very well how each aspect of the text is used in to strengthen the overall content and as a result student learning can be impacted.
A summary of the content is provided as well as anticipated learning outcomes.
Exercises are included with each section.
Videos are embedded, such as the Asch video in chapter 1.
Ethics are explained and differences are noted between law, religion, peer pressure, custom, and other areas; the differences between normative and descriptive ethics are discussed.

Concerns:

There are several citations throughout the textbook that are out of recency. I’m curious if the authors have since had an updated edition published
The presented workshop information lacks references, so it’s difficult to tell if the information is accurate.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:

Identifies learning objectives
Builds on prior concepts
Demonstrates relationships between concepts
This content would be easy to integrate into the curriculum
This would be an effective resource for faculty looking to add a new textbook to their course to use this resource as a model/guide.
This content would be very easy for faculty and curriculum developers to follow in course development.

Concerns:

Prerequisite knowledge is not described, but this is basic, relevant ethics information that does not require an in-depth understanding of ethical theory.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:

The textbook is easy to view, search, and understand.
The text is visually appealing, clean, and easy to follow.
The textbook is easily accessible.
The Textbook has a PDF option that is downloadable, and able to be accessed with and without the internet.
The content from the textbook may be used on multiple mobile devices.

Concerns:

The textbook is not interactive, however, the case study options at the end of each chapter offer several opportunities that the faculty member could offer
Textbook is lacking references throughout.

Other Issues and Comments:: Chapter 1 was reviewed.
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